In a United States based video interview on 24 October 2017 with journalist and author Alex Newman on the Conscious Consumer Network (CCN) channel, Newman (below) referred extensively to the book AmaBhulu.

Co-host Karin Smith eventually held up her copy of AmaBhulu and Newman lauded it as “an incredible book.” He made a point of referring to a unique aspect of the work, namely the way it interweaves the author’s own ancestors, and eventually the experiences of the author himself, through the formally documented history of South Africa. He also addressed the matter of how the book puts to bed the myths about South Africa:

It puts to bed so many of the myths that are fundamental to what happened and what is happening, and once those myths are destroyed, all of the pretext to what is happening disappears, and that is why I encourage.. [people].. to read that book to get familiar with the history.

… I learnt more in that book about South Africa than I learnt in everything else I read about South Africa combined…you know, it’s just that I cannot recommend that book highly enough.

As author, I am also very gratified to hear Alex Newman go on record stating that he values my opinion “very very highly.” I certainly do try very hard to back up every statement I make with documentary evidence and good argument.

In the interview they touch on two points I have also made, namely that South Africa is the “Canary in the Coal Mine” of the West, and that the forces that destroyed South Africa are doing their damnedest to take down America, and thereby the West. For example, the recent efforts at taking down statues in the United States is a direct carbon copy of what happened in South Africa and may be traced step-by-step to that country. What ails America today started in South Africa, as witnessed by ex President Obama’s infatuation with Mandela and his ANC.

Newman clearly accepts the author’s position that Afrikaners are the closest people on Earth to Americans; their “closest cousins“, more so than the British. That relationship should be no surprise, because one of my son’s earliest ancestors in South Africa was the first American immigrant to the country in 1667.

It is heartening to hear an American speak with so much appreciation for an effort that took me seven years of trawling archives in seven countries. I started the work during 2006 when I had finally reached my tolerance limit for rubbish comments and rubbish reports about a country and people I have loved with all my heart.

Referring to me and a position I have assumed as regards the future of the Afrikaner, Alex accepts my credentials as an Afrikaner who believes passionately in his own people. This I appreciate very much. He feels about his people the way I feel about mine. I respect that in a man.

The complete 24 October 2017 Conscious Consumer Network (CNN) interview by Mel Ve and Karin Smith with Alex Newman may be found HERE.

Irish-born Canadian, Stefan Molyneux, is described by some as “probably the most influential libertarian thinker of our times.” He has certainly been quite contentious at times, and the views of the present author certainly differs from his in a number of respects, but the fact is that he has a solid following. Recently, he posted an expanded presentation on the subject of South Africa.

As author of AmaBhulu, I was very much surprised to hear my own written words transmitted at me in a very energetic Youtube presentation. Mr Molyneux has clearly read AmaBhulu in some detail, because he quotes verbatim from it no fewer than five times and relies on the book for other information and for some of the points he raises.

Referring to the Dutch trading the Cape to the British in 1814, he quotes the line from page 99 of AmaBhulu: “Herewith the Dutch finally deserted their kin in exchange for coin.” This he does in order to make clear this author’s point that Afrikaners have not had anywhere “to go back to” since then. This profound point is lost on pretty much all commentators on South Africa, including most in South Africa. Finally, someone outside South Africa comprehends this crucial point.

In respect of the Afrikaner’s attitude towards Communism, he quotes a section from page 342 of AmaBhulu ending in: “It was not so much the socialist philosophy as the total disrespect for religion and human life that created in the staunchly Calvinistic Afrikaner nothing but utter revulsion.”

Molyneux also quotes the author on the matter of the economic gains for Black South Africans in the wake of changes made by P.W. Botha, as described on page 454.

On the secret 1989 meetings in South Africa between the Soviets and the South African government, Molyneux quotes from page 484 of AmaBhulu.

As regards Nelson Mandela’s meeting with P.W. Botha on 5 July 1989, he recounts this present author’s description on page 485 in the section “The inmate, the jailer, and the Coca-Cola.“

More generally, Molyneux appears to accept a number of points made in AmaBhulu. These include the fact that black people resided far to the east when the Dutch landed at the Cape (see the map below from AmaBhulu), and that the former were also immigrants. Unlike the Dutch, they drove off the indigenous Khoekhoe, which Molyneux regrettably refers to as “Blacks”. The Khoekhoe are, of course, a distinct anthropological grouping within the broader Family of Man.

17th Century migration of Black people down the east coast of South Africa.

He also understands that apartheid did not materialize out of thin air in a gush of collective malice. It was preceded by around 170 years of frontier strife with Black people. Molyneux has a degree in History and this likely accounts for the fact that he attributes importance to the subject.

He clearly understands that South Africa had turned a corner in the early 1980s and had started building a Black Middle Class. He seems to agree with the thesis of the author that the Northern Hemisphere White Liberal Guilty Conscience sits at the root of much of the harm that was done to South Africa by the West.

He also very aptly uses the summary the author provides on pages 549 & 550 of AmaBhulu on the subject of Black Economic Empowerment legislation. He cleverly replaces the word “Black” everywhere in the summary with the word “White” and amusingly suggests it was a 1948 National Party act. He strings along the unwitting racist and then, at a suitable point, explains that this is actually a 2003 Act and the word “White” is replaced everywhere by “Black”.

Molyneux then confronts the viewer with: “If you suddenly see this legislation in a more favourable light, then congratulations! You now know that you are a racist.” Brilliant! I can see a whole bevy of people I have met in my life splutter and cough and search desperately for an intellectual door to leave by. He provides none such as he then launches into his summary opinion.

He believes that South Africa is a today a “Tragic Missed Opportunity“, a “Gaping and Opening Hell Hole.” He very appropriately ends with “If we don’t know the facts, we can never be in control of the future.”

The present author agrees on this point and contends that the Western Media has never really had the facts about South Africa. All it has ever had has been a psychotic degree of guilt complex which it attempted to address by beating up on the most exposed and most endangered of all nations in the Western Family of Man, the white man in Africa.

Alex Newman is an American journalist and consultant who writes about economics, finance, banking, business, and politics for diverse publications in the United States and abroad. He has also lived in South Africa and therefore has firsthand knowledge of the country. Newman has recently reviewed AmaBhulu for the news magazine The New American. The detailed review may be read HERE.

As to the factual nature of AmaBhulu Newman states,
—”…Booyens does a tremendous service to the truth. He presents facts that have been all but lost to mainstream history.”

This comment may very well have something to do with the 1280 references and some 270 bibliographic works that form the basis of AmaBhulu. These references and footnotes comprise no fewer than 30 pages. Every effort certainly was made to ensure that the work was backed up with a suitable “mountain” of evidence and sources.

As to the scope of AmaBhulu as a work of non-fiction, Newman writes,
—”While the staggering amount of knowledge, insight, and history contained in the book certainly makes it a tremendous value all on its own, there is another element that may be more important still: The potential lessons it has to offer the people of the First America as they struggle against many of the same forces that helped destroy the ‘Second America’. ”

It is heartening to see that Americans are beginning to heed the message of AmaBhulu.

Supplying books to South Africa is always a problem. Somehow the shipping costs are always outrageously high compared with other places equally far from North America or Europe. On occasion, some merchants offer better arrangements. As of this date, AmaBhulu is available to South Africans from, among other, the following sources:

The author supports Createspace, because they supported the author when it was really difficult to produce this book. Interested parties should confirm these prices and shipping costs on the websites of the relevant merchants.

Within South Africa itself, Loot.co.za offer it at R508.00. Shipping costs are unclear.

At 3.9lbs with the dimensions of a telephone directory, Amabhulu is large and heavy for a good reason. It took seven years to put together for the same reason. And that reason is completeness, both as regards the content and as regards the evidence supporting that content.

AmaBhulu is now on Goodreads. A number of Trivia questions about the book has also been added. These have been designed to be of some interest to Americans in particular. There are a few interesting questions about Nelson Mandela and his people, for example. South Africans might also learn a thing or two with those questions.